Editing Second Sunrise Over New Mombasa

{{Title|''Second Sunrise Over New Mombasa''}}
{{Status|RealWorld}}
[[File:Mombasa skyline.jpg|thumb|200px|New Mombasa as depicted in the story]]
'''''Second Sunrise Over New Mombasa''''' is the fourth and last story in the ''[[Halo Graphic Novel]]''. Written by Brett Lewis and illustrated by [[Wikipedia:Jean Giraud|Jean "Moebius" Giraud]], the visual style of the comic is heavily stylized in Moebius' trademark style - with many abstract visuals and colours rather than the more grounded visuals of the ''Graphic Novel''{{'}}s other stories.{{Ref/Site|Id=Announce|URL=http://halo.bungie.net/News/content.aspx?type=topnews&cid=7867|Site=Bungie.net|Page=Bungie Official Announcement|D=13|M=10|Y=2014}}

The comic centres on the story of a [[civilian]] journalist, [[Benjamin Giraud]] - who would later go on to be heavily featured in [[2015]]'s ''[[Hunt the Truth]]'' audio drama.

==Official synopsis==
{{Article quote|Fighting a war isn't just shipping men and machines to distant worlds. There are subtler, more dangerous fights taking place on the streets of New Mombasa, and in the hearts and minds of men.{{Ref/Reuse|Announce}}}}

==Plot summary==
The entire story is a flashback told after the initial [[Covenant]] [[Battle of Mombasa|invasion]] on the city of [[New Mombasa]] on [[2552#October|October 20, 2552]], before the arrival of UNSC reinforcements later in the day.

Journalist [[Benjamin Giraud]] commutes to New Mombasa on a [[MagLev Train|monorail train]]. He explains that his job is to edit and manipulate images coming from all over human space, making them more "digestible" for the public. He says his employers pay him well and through them he's employed by the [[Office of Naval Intelligence]]. He feels both proud and guilty about his work because he is helping to hide the truth about how mankind is losing [[Human-Covenant War|the war]] against the Covenant. He describes [[Mombasa]] as a cosmopolitan city before the Covenant attack. He remembers when his friends and family thought he was working on a public relations campaign for the [[Hog]]; in reality he was being put under pressure by his employers and his job was getting progressively harder due to the UNSC's continuous defeats. He then talks about when the Covenant [[Battle for Earth|found Earth]]: the war always seemed a distant problem to the planet's inhabitants, but soon after it was very present. The train on which he is traveling homebound gets hit by space-falling debris.

Giraud then awakes in a hospital when the enemy's ground assault has already begun. During the fight he manages to translate a [[Sangheili]]'s message saying. "''We need to clear this area before we can secure access to the [[Installation 00|Ark]]''". A [[Unidentified Marine officer (Mombasa)|Marine officer]] tells him to get the recording out of the city to [[UNSC High Command]]. Arriving at the waterfront he finds the whole city's population trying to leave aboard "anything that floats": he realizes that the recording is too important and that he has to get on one of the remaining boats. In the end he gives the recording to a child who otherwise would have remained on the shore alone; he escorts her to a boat in the hope she is evacuated safely.

At the end he is seen in a room filled with screens that show the Covenant overrunning the city, where he says, "''What will it matter? This is the first day of the end of the world''".

== Appearances ==
{{Featurelist|secondcolumn=title-5
|title-1=Characters|
*[[Benjamin Giraud]] {{1st}}
*[[Unidentified Marine officer (Mombasa)|Unnamed UNSC Marine Corps officer]] {{1st}}
*[[Unidentified commuter]] {{1st}}
*[[Unidentified salesman]] {{1st}}
*[[Civilian]]s {{1st}}

|title-2=Species|
*[[Human]]
*[[Sangheili]]
*[[Kig-Yar]]

|title-3=Organizations|
*[[Covenant]]
*[[United Nations Space Command]]
**[[Colonial Militia]]
**[[Office of Naval Intelligence]]
**[[UNSC Marine Corps]]

|title-4=Locations|
*[[Earth]]
**[[Africa]]
***[[East African Protectorate]]
****[[Kenya]]
*****[[Mombasa]]
******[[New Mombasa]]
*******[[Arney Antics]] {{1st}}
******[[Old Mombasa]]
*[[Mariposa]] {{Mo}}

|title-5=Events|
*[[Human-Covenant War]]
**[[Battle for Earth]]
***[[Battle of Mombasa]]

|title-6=Vehicles|
'''United Nations Space Command'''
*[[M12 Chaingun Warthog]]
*[[Civilian Warthog]]
*[[MagLev train]]

'''Covenant'''
*{{Pattern|Oghal|Banshee}}
*{{Pattern|Protos|Scarab}}
*{{Pattern|Kez'katu|Phantom}}
*{{Pattern|Ruwaa|Shadow}}

|title-7=Technology and equipment|
*[[Personal computer]]
*[[Portable computer]]
*[[UNSC Marine Corps Battle Dress Uniform|UNSC Marine BDU]]
**[[M52B body armor]]
**[[CH252 helmet]]
**[[VZG7 armored boots]]
*[[ORION armor]] {{C|First appearance; non-canon}}
*[[Combat harness|Sangheili combat harness]]
}}

==Trivia==
*The protagonist of ''Second Sunrise Over New Mombasa'' remains unnamed in the story. He was identified as [[Benjamin Giraud]] when the character was reintroduced in the ''[[Hunt the Truth]]'' promotional campaign for ''[[Halo 5: Guardians]]''. The name is in honor of the comic's illustrator, Jean "Moebius" Giraud, who passed away in 2012.
*Several background characters depicted in the story are seemingly based on concept art for the ''Halo'' games. A number of [[Sangheili]] seen in the comic incorporate element from early ''[[Halo: Combat Evolved]]'' concept, and on page 93, a human soldier shot by an Elite wears armor strikingly similar to [[:File:Masterchief sheik.png|an early design]] for the [[MJOLNIR Powered Assault Armor|Mjolnir armor]] by [[Shi Kai Wang]].

==Gallery==
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